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| Hello, that is considered one of our (nearly) each day tastings. Santé! |
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Could 23, 2022
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4 Talisker
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The newer 10, one of many oldest 10s, a current 25 and the model new 27, how does that sound?
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Talisker 10 yo (45.8%, OB, French market, +/-2022) 
With a humorous bilingual label, each in English and in French. For instance, it says each ‘aged 10 years’ and ‘vieilli 10 ans’. Another elements don’t translate too effectively, because the double that means of ‘Made By The Sea’, for instance, can’t fairly be achieved in French. Anyway… Color: gold. Nostril: we’re having that full-blown salty pepperiness, complemented with a variety of previous hessian, very bitter doughs, simply uncooked smoked malted barley, and ashes diluted in fino – or one thing like that. Great dryness and no compromises with woods that I can detect. Mouth: completely wonderful, as Talisker as Talisker ever was, salty, peppery certainly, bitter, and reasonably on the standard citrus so far as fruits are involved. Beautiful ashes too, plus this sense of quaffing a wee glass of seawater. End: lengthy, fantastically tight, salty, and as near correct manzanilla as any whisky ever was. To suppose that they most likely have not used a single butt of manzanilla right here, not even fino. Feedback: I do not suppose Talisker 10 ever went away, however there have been rumours. Assuming these rumours have been based, effectively, it is again. Oh and we’ll reiterate our long-standing supplication, the world wants a Talisker 10 Cask Power!
SGP:457 – 90 factors. |
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Talisker 10 yo (45.8%, OB, 1l, +/-1989)
This one’s bearing the oval quaich emblem of United Distillers’ early Basic Malts. These Taliskers have been a bit softer and fruitier than in the present day’s, however batches did fluctuate certainly. Plus, OBE could have modified this one, let’s have a look at… Color: Rolex gold. Joking. Nostril: I used to be proper (that is lame, S.) this has extra fruits, extra bananas, mangos, maracuja, bitter apples, additionally smoky bread, doughs, porridge (we all know B&Bs up there that might by no means serve you any porridge with out a nip of a peater inside), then herbs soup, with some sage, coriander, tarragon… What a magnificence, actually! We used to assert that point deconstructs peat to fantastic outcomes, and that is simply one other instance. There’s even an equation, peat + time = mango. Proper… Mouth: simply superlative. Let’s hold this brief, think about some sorrel soup, plus carbon mud, tar, pepper, cockles, lemon, coriander, walnut skins and… hey, manzanilla! A really salty manzanilla. End: lengthy, not drained in any approach, and simply f…. beautiful. Please excuse me. Feedback: one of many higher batches. I’ve typically questioned in the event that they weren’t pouring their greatest vattings into these 1l bottles for duty-free. Correct duty-free outlets, not in the present day’s gloomy areas the place particular costs go like +50%-20%. Gorgeous drop.
SGP:565 – 93 factors. |
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Talisker 25 yo (45.8%, OB, Netherlands import, +/-2022)
On the label, they went from ‘The Solely Distillery On The Isle Of Skye’ to ‘The Oldest Distillery On The Isle Of Skye’. Proper, supplied you are profitable, all the time change as little as you may, and provided that it’s essential to. No, not a lot to say concerning the newish ‘torn label’. Color: gold. Nostril: discreet, nearly absent after the first-class tenners. Whiffs of previous Sancerre, grapefruit juice, maybe cucumber water, maybe some kelp… It’s curiously evanescent, actually. I’d suppose it’s going to all occur on our palate. Mouth: yess, now we’re speaking. This time the 25 years don’t really feel, that is as brilliant and recent as the brand new 10, with some seawater, grapefruits, manzanilla (hurray) and maybe, this time, a bit tobacco, walnut wine, amatriciana sauce, and a cardamom plus pepper plus cumin combo that is working very effectively. End: pepper, salted cider and seawater, for a reasonably very long time. I additionally really feel that we must always point out our good associates the whelks. Feedback: 10 or 25, dedicated to the identical battle. Talisker is concerning the distillate; nothing can please me extra.
SGP:466 – 90 factors. |
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Talisker 27 yo ‘Components’ (58%, OB, Distillery Unique, 2,000 bottles, 2022) 
I am unsure we wanna know that this child was ‘triple cask-matured’. OK whereas we’re there, it was matured successively in refill casks, then heavily-charred casks, then previous European oak puncheons. However certainly, trendy whisky is like mortadella, I am unsure we would wish to know the way they make it ;-). Color: full gold. Nostril: seemingly thick and really compact, however at 58% vol. it’s exhausting to get to the finer particulars. Some recent vanilla-ed oak and blond turon. No Atlantic wildness this far. With water: some seawater certainly, previous hessian, dunnage, inexperienced smoke (only a idea, actually), in addition to our beloved uncooked wool. Inexperienced pepper. Mouth (neat): the sweetest of all of them, and that is the wooden. Heavy notes of candy pepper and ginger liqueur. A bit of tough and hard, however that could be the energy. Excessive candy peppers for certain. With water: appears like we tamed it, even when the woods are nonetheless on the helm. Extra oak spices, ginger, cinnamon, over-infused inexperienced tea, even forgotten kombucha, chilly tea… That is all of the wooden. End: lengthy, even greener. Inexperienced tannins and peppers plus fruit peel. Feedback: a really beautiful dram for certain, however that is the place private preferences actually come into play. I will all the time want my whiskies al pure reasonably than tuned, whereas that is nearly a scorching rod dragster.
SGP:566 – 86 factors. |
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